Not a python fan but he was a very intelligent guy who did so much other stuff.
Intelligent people seem to get Alzeimers/dementia etc...
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Not a python fan but he was a very intelligent guy who did so much other stuff.
The theory is it's actually the opposite: it's called cognitive reserve, and the more active your mind is, the more you can withstand the ravages of disease or dementia. But it's always heartbreaking to see a great mind fail, and I agree it seems more common in the intellectuals, but it's only those with active minds who we are still interested in into their 70s. If the entire cast of on the buses got Alzeimers, would it make the news? Well, yes, I guess it would if they all did, but not each individual actor.Lullabelle wrote: ↑4 years agoNot a python fan but he was a very intelligent guy who did so much other stuff.
Intelligent people seem to get Alzeimers/dementia etc...
Yeah, poor choice. But it's hard naming a low brow sitcom that might not have been smarter than I realised. On the buses seemed safe.
I'm just glad I stocked up on 5000 toilet rolls.Greg wrote: ↑3 years agoAre we heading towards a war?
The economies tanking, the wealth divide will undoubtedly widen further.
A 2nd pandemic wave now seems likely.
Divisions are growing between the alt right and BLM movement, and all shades (pun intended) in-between.
The Brexit wound is far from healed.
Our world leaders are increasingly radical.
WTF is going on?
I have watched the footage. I was imagining a middle-class-looking, well-dressed, 47-year-old white woman in a high-end car (I assume, I don't know anything about cars), parked up and dropping off a friend after midnight. Leaving aside the question of whether the police officer would even have bothered with the tinted/tainted windows bullshit in the first place, I can't help feeling he would have said something about please consider getting your windows replaced, madam, as they are not legal, and that would have been that. All the hostile stuff about local thefts, there's something in the car, have you taken drugs, is directly because the 'suspect' is black, it seems to me - most likely none of that would have even have occurred to him if she had been white.JohnToo wrote: ↑3 years agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... mi-bennett
Has anyone followed this case and watched the police bodycam footage?
I could easily believe that the initial decision to stop her car was racist, but I'd be interested what anyone else thinks about the subsequent unfolding of the incident.
The officer was clearly out of order. He claims she was being spoken to because of tinted windows and then claims it was because he thought she had stolen goods, as she was parked in an area with a burglary problem.JohnToo wrote: ↑3 years agohttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... mi-bennett
Has anyone followed this case and watched the police bodycam footage?
I could easily believe that the initial decision to stop her car was racist, but I'd be interested what anyone else thinks about the subsequent unfolding of the incident.